Popular Culture... Lecture 4.

The aims of this Essay:

- Critically define 'popular culture'

- Define 'Ideology'

- Contrast ideas of culture with popular culture and mass culture.

What is culture:

- On of the most complicated words in the english language!

- A particular way of life

- Works of intellectual and especially artistic significance

The State

‘…but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’ (Marx & Engels (1848) ‘Communisit Manifesto)

This is what was placed next to this image as it describes the way that they think this all links together to show how each of them all look at each other ... as you can see they say the order in which the world was working and what priority is in order to make sure each of them do what they have been told! 

What is Ideology 

- Inferior kinds of work

- Well liked by many people

- Work deliberately setting out to win favour with the people

- Culture actually made by the people themselves

these would show how you can then portray something as ideology, it says how you want things to look and be perfect in other peoples eyes and this will allow this to then be made out to be perfect and liked by everyone

Working Class

Bourgeois

Matthew Arnold (1867) ‘Culture & Anarchy’

matthew believed that culture was created from the best things that have happend in the world, the study of perfection., attained through disinterested reading, thinking and writing. This can all lead to the pursuit of culture.

'The working class… raw and half developed… long lain half hidden amidst it’s poverty and squalor… now issuing from it’s hiding place to assert an Englishmans heaven born privelige to do as he likes, and beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, breaking what it likes' 

There are many things out there now which will show modern culture and how this is wanted to be placed and preformed in the best of lights, this can be a range off something from everyone is interested in when they get the most of things in the modern world. This could be anything from Facebook, big brother, hollyoaks. 

These all have a way of inviting the crowds into them and making them something which we see as 'cool' to watch ... thus making it Popular 

What else makes something popular:

The AURA of an object or the hype which surrounds something can make a massive impact on what you makes something popular. The best way to describe this would be with the Mona Lisa, this has such hype about the painting that its became famous for it, however there is much better paintings out there now and these do not has as much influence in the modern world. 

This can also edit what is 'cool' and 'popular' in the fashion industry and how you want these to then be made, the most influencial way of working with this is to look at what comes up in magazines and is broadcasted on the big screen, this then makes you think you want these and thus making it high demand and popular.